«FEMALE» MYTHS IN SWEDISH LITERATURE AND CINEMA. «PERSONA» BY I. BERGMAN AND «ELEKTRA. WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2070» BY I. LO-JOHANSSON |
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2014 |
scientific article | 82-31 | ||
393-399 | myth, Swedish cinema, I. Bergman, Swedish neomythological novel, dystopia, I. Lo-Johansson |
The era of the 1960s in Sweden was a period of change in the social policy of the country, which resulted in stability and stagnation at the same time. Reforms affected the gender situation in society, and the attitude to them was ambiguous. In some cases, the mythological image of Elektra becomes a symbol of a new-age woman who shows her own attitude to the proposed «rhetoric of reform». |
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